What is Carmen House?

To answer this question, we must ask: What is a Christian Study Center?

Karl E. Johnson, the founder and former director of Chesterton House at Cornell, has described a Christian Study Center in this way:

"Christian Study Centers are hubs of Christian community, hospitality and learning—gathering places for students and scholars animated by the ancient ideal of faith seeking understanding."

Christian.

Carmen House believes that Jesus Christ is not merely a historical figure in human history, nor merely a means to a feeling of assurance of a desired afterlife. Though it may be as radical an idea as ever, we have been convinced that God has become a human being and has been revealed in the person of Jesus Christ. With the apostle Paul we seek to see the preeminence of Christ in all things, including all of life at the public university (Col. 1: 17-18).

Study.

Carmen House seeks to contribute to learning and the pursuit of truth on campus at Ohio State. We desire to help students and faculty, no matter where they are on their spiritual journeys, to explore how their studies and their work on campus could be pursued with Christ, and for Christ. We believe the Christian story can provide a comprehensive understanding of reality that helps us find meaning in God's world.

Carmen House seeks to host and curate programs that help students, faculty, and staff at OSU explore life's deepest questions.

Center.

An important ingredient to a Christian Study Centers is a physical location on the doorstep of a secular university. Learning and growth is not best accomplished as isolated individuals. Carmen House is seeking a location where Ohio State students, faculty, and staff can come together and experience the hospitality of Christ.

Carmen House endeavors to be a hub where various campus ministries can utilize a facility for their own mission, cultivating unity in the body of Christ.

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Though we are in the beginning stages of launching Carmen House Christian Study Center on the doorstep of OSU, we trust that we are on the cusp of being a significant resource to OSU and the campus community.